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Category Archives: Holographic Technology
Z-Space : Holographic 3D with Spatial Persistence
The Z-Space display is being developed by a California company called Infinite Z. By tracking user’s eye movements with 3D glasses, the display creates not only the illusion of 3 dimensionality – but unlike most 3D systems – it persists … Continue reading
3D Library Services at the University of Michigan
FormFonts 3D has the world’s largest 3D library of professionally developed SketchUp components, and we have a fondness for library sciences, and all things 3D. So we are delighted to see the University of Michigan is keeping up with the … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Printing, 3D Tech, Augmented Reality, Digital Fabrication, Holographic Technology, Physible, Reality Hacking, Virtual Reality
Tagged 3-D, 3D and university libraries, 3D Printing, library science, Michigan 3D Lab, MIDEN, photo gallery, SketchUp Components, virtual reality
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3D Benjamins Coming! Wal-Mart Breaths a Sigh-of-Relief
The US Treasury will release the new 100 dollar bill in the next few months. Slated to be released in early 2011, the new ‘Benjamins’ are a bit behind schedule. The delays are due to manufacturing problems with the advanced … Continue reading
Projected Reality – Outdoors and In
By Fred Abler Artists have discovered powerful video projectors, and the conflict-of-perception between a projected image and its underlying ‘canvas’ has never been greater. A new genre of art uses architecture-as-canvas, and is loosely known as Urban Projection Mapping. Fig- … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Tech, Augmented Reality, Holographic Technology, Interior Design, Minimalist Movement, Reality Hacking, Uncategorized, Virtual Reality
Tagged Holodeck, holotech, Immersive projection, microsoft, Mr Beam projected living room, projecting video on buildings, Startrek Holodeck, Urban Projection Mapping, Urban Screen, virtual architecture, virutal interiors, Xbox Platform
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Apple Embraces Holo’Tek – for iPhone 5?
by Fred Abler Steve Job’s product design strategy was simple – “Make signal, not noise”. In other words, make products so different, that they will cut through all the noise in the marketplace. This incomparable strategy has worked brilliantly for … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Tech, Holographic Technology, Reality Hacking, SketchUp, Tools, Uncategorized
Tagged adaptive camouflage, Anthropomorphize, Apple iPhone5, Bloomberg Businessweek, glasses free 3D, holograms, marketing strategy, Mission Impossible, product design strategy, Signal to Noise Ratio, simulated hologram, Steve Jobs, Trimble Sketchup, User Interface Design
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Live Mapping… Underground 3D
by Fred Abler Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s quasi Alien’s prequel, is a visually brilliant movie. A team of earth archeologists, a geologist, and a vain android named ‘David’.. delve into deep space in the year 2089. Their mission is to find … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Tech, Architecture, GeoPorn, Holographic Technology, Tools, Virtual Reality
Tagged 3D, 3D Cave Mapping, Aliens, Android, Archeo Robots, Archeology, Archeorobot, Charlize Theron, David, GemStone, GeoSight, Geotechnical, Holographic UI, HoloTek, Indissoluble, Live Mapping, MINEi, Mining, Prometheus Movie, Scanning Sewers, SciFi, SciFi Technology, Spectragraph, Stopes, The Engineers, Weyland Industries
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Living 3D – Hover’s Tactical Tech
by Fred Abler Previously when wars ended, military tech put on civilian clothes and went in search of a consumer market. But given the 21st century invention of ‘perpetual war’, this technology transfer cycle is now far less obvious. We … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Tech, Architecture, Augmented Reality, Holographic Technology, SketchUp, Tools
Tagged 3D mapping, A.J. Altman, advanced mapping technologies, Alive Web, crowdsourced 3D maps, datedness, Dr. Edward Lu, Google, Google Maps, Google StreetView, holographic 3D maps, Hover, Living 3D, microsoft, military tech transfer, Navy Seal, Non Photorealistic Representation, NPR, Om Malik, perpetual war, photosynth, Street View, technology transfer, USMC
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Marauder’s Map.. 3D Holograms from your SketchUp Models
by Fred Abler As the saying goes, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. And it’s this dichotomy that, for me, makes the Harry Potter series so charming. By flipping the context, much of today’s internet technology still looks… … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Tech, Holographic Technology, Services, SketchUp, Theory & Concepts, Tools
Tagged 3D Holographic Battle Maps, 3D Maps, 3D point clouds, advanced technology, Army, army intelligence, Arthur C. Clarke, Azkaban, battle maps, battlefield tech, cartography, flashlight, FormFonts, glasses free 3D, Harry Potter, Hogwarts, holograms, HoloTek, Houston, magic, Maps, marauder's map, Sirius Black, Sketchup, SketchUp Holograms, U.S. Army, wand light, wands, wizards, Zebra technologies
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